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4434Online Poetry Classroomhttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85366
Poets.org provides a wealth of content on poems and poetry, emphasizing but not limited to contemporary American poets. It receives an average of 400,000 unique users each month, and it provides online educational resources such as free poetry lesson plans for teachers.The William Blake Archivehttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90370
Including thousands of Blake's images and texts, this hypermedia archive contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of several of Blake's illuminated works, bibliographic information about each image, transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, extensive bibliographies and more.Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culturehttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89999
This site is an extensive collection of multimedia materials concerning Harriet Beecher Stowes as an American cultural phenomenon, Uncle Tom's Cabin and the historical and cultural context of the novel. This easy to navigate site features historical text, newspaper reviews of the novel, as well as the novel's adaptations in songs, children's books, plays and films. An interactive timeline and lesson plans are just some of the other features the site offers. It also includes primary materials (texts, images, film clips, and images), essays, and lesson plans that touch upon the sources for the story and its impact.It's No Laughing Matter: Analyzing Political Cartoonshttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=241187
This is an interesting&nbsp;learning activity from the Library of Congress on the subject of political cartoons.&nbsp; This&nbsp;would be appropriate for Social Studies,&nbsp;Humanities, Government , Journalism or History classes.&nbsp; Student are taught how to analyze and decode&nbsp;cartoons and about&nbsp;persuasive techniques often employed by&nbsp;political cartoonists&nbsp;to&nbsp;promote their&nbsp;individual message such as symbolism, exxageration and analogy.&nbsp; Students view examples of various political cartoons&nbsp;and then test themselves&nbsp;on which typical cartoonist techniques are depicted in each.&nbsp; In the &quot;Learn More&quot; section, the same&nbsp;cartoons are&nbsp;shown and there is&nbsp;a brief&nbsp;expert audio analysis of each one.&nbsp; This section also contains links to&nbsp;biographical sketches for each of the cartoonists.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mark Twain in His Timeshttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90889
"This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today. Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits."Native Languages of the Americas: Native American Indian Legends and Folklorehttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=315312
This page is our collection of Native American folktales and traditional stories that can be read online. We have indexed these stories tribe by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other. As well as our collections of tribal legends and legend archives, we also have three pages of comparative legends, first for the stories of the Wabanaki tribes (including the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki tribes,) second for the stories of the Iroquois tribes (including the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes,) and third for the stories of the Anishinabe tribes (including the Chippewa, Ottawa, Algonquin, and Potawatomi tribes.) Since this page features primarily the myths and legends of North American Indian tribes, we have also begun a separate collection of Central and South American Indian legends which may be interesting for purposes of comparison. Note that since many children use this site, we have tried to avoid linking to any legends or stories which deal explicitly with sex or contain bad language, including slur words for Native Americans. However, like the folklore of any culture -- including European fairy tales -- there is often violence and bad behavior in American Indian folklore, so please use discretion about sharing them with younger children.Max Hunter Folk Song Collectionhttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83048
The Max Hunter Collection is an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. The site provides audio files for the songs, with text transcription, and some musical transcriptions. The site is searchable.Resources For Studying Spoken Englishhttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=250526
This website provides a wealth of resources for studying spoken English.91 Ways to Respond to Literaturehttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86329
This site is an excellent source for ideas on how to write responses to (or create projects for) literature. It has been around for a long time, and I have used it many times in my classroom.Center for Digital Storytellinghttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79440
Introduction to Digital Storytelling and "homebase" with lots of links to excellent sites with videos, information about workshops, info about joining DSA (Digital Storytelling Assn), and more.